About World Thinking Day
Today, 30,000 children die every day from poverty and neglect, and two billion people live without adequate food and basic needs. More than three million people will die of HIV and AIDS this year - many of them live in poverty.
The World Thinking Day theme for 2010 is girls worldwide say "together we can end extreme poverty and hunger" and the aim is to raise awareness among everyone about the situation and improve the lives of the poorest people in the world.
‘Ending poverty’ is one of the eight areas of focus made by 189 world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. It is also part of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT), which encourages girls and young women to make a personal commitment to change the world around them by linking to an important global agenda: the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs.)
WAGGGS will continue supporting the Millennium Development Goals over the next three years with the following themes:
- World Thinking Day theme 2010 - Poverty and Hunger
- World Thinking Day theme 2011 - Empowerment
- World Thinking Day theme 2012 - Environment
World Thinking Day both raises awareness of the Millennium Development Goals through our GAT and raises funds for the Movement worldwide.
